If you don't started with the Zen of a blank page, you'll notice that the Pages templates all use dummy type and stock photos intended as placeholders until you put in your own text and pictures. In its simplest form, Pages lets you craft your documents by just tapping the fake text in the template and typing in your own words; Pages adds new pages while you need them. Tap a corner of the template's placeholder picture and replace it with one of your own in the Photos box that pops.
Whenever you tap into a text field, a formatting toolbar appears at the top of the screen. It includes a ruler for tab stops and margins, plus text-formatting buttons you can click to do things like add a headline, make characters boldface, and change the text alignment. An easy set of four icons in the top right corner from the screen contains all of the program's other formatting tools. With these, you can:
Style text. Select some text on-screen and tap here to open a three-tabbed box labelled Style, List, and Layout. The Style menu has pre-configured type styles for Title, Subtitle, and so on, along with bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough buttons. Tap the List tab if you want to make the selected text a bulleted or numbered list. Tap the Layout tab to change the written text alignment, change the quantity of columns on the page, or adjust the space between lines.
Add images and graphics. Make use of this four-tabbed box to add visual elements to your documents. Tap the Media tab to insert a photo from the iPad's Photos app. Tap the Tables tab to stick in an adjustable text table, and tap the Charts tab to insert bar charts, pie charts, along with other infographics.
Tap the Shapes tab to add geometric forms and arrows to a document. Hate the colors of all these stock graphics charts? Swipe the box with your finger - you will find six mini-pages of each type to choose from, as indicated by the dots at the bottom.
Change settings. Tap the Wrench icon to get towards the blueprint-y Document Setup screen so you can change the file's headers, footers, and margins. The Find option helps you search documents, and the very helpful Help guide shortcut takes you to the full Pages manual online. The Tools box lets you turn on built-in guides for aligning text and photos, and you can start up Pages' spell-checker here, too.
Go to fullscreen view. Tap these arrows to get rid of the toolbar and expand your document full-screen. You can use Pages in either portrait or landscape view, but you'll only begin to see the toolbar and other controls in portrait mode. Want to jump to a different page in a document? Press your finger down on the right side of the screen to see the Page Navigator preview tool, then slide the Navigator up or down and release when you find the page you want.
Pages may have a ton of templates, but you aren't locked into having every document look the same. If you want, you can use text-formatting tools to alter the type's size, style, and even color to make it seem like you want it to look.
And you're not locked into rigid photo sizes or placement, either. After you import your own pictures or choose stock graphics, tap the element to get a slider bar so you can resize the look in the frame, or make use of the blue handles to resize the whole image itself.
Drag a particular photo around the page to reposition it. You can even delete photo boxes you don't want. Miss those Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-S lifesavers? If you mess something up, don't worry. Pages, like all the iWork programs, has a handy Undo button on the top-left corner of every screen. And it automatically saves your document every few seconds as you work along.
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